[MOD] Astromech Droids (s + m ships self repair) (10th Jan '15)

[Marvin Martian]

i do it this way on my Repairservice mod

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	  <do_if value="not this.ship.engineer.exists">
		  <create_engineer name="$engineer" ship="this.ship">
			  <select race="race.argon" tags="tag.engineer"/>
			  <owner exact="this.ship.owner"/>
		  </create_engineer>
	  </do_if>
	  <do_if value="this.ship.engineer.exists">
		  <start_script object="this.ship.engineer" name="'engineer.ai.plus'"/>
	  </do_if>

[YorrickVander]

Addendum :

Changing the engineer check to 30s on my current gaming box (i7 6700k+980ti) i didnt see any spikes in cpu usage running vanilla 4.0b3 with this mod only active. Cpu use stayed at 6.5-7% for a full minute watching the taskmanager.

If anyone would like to test this out then replace AddSmallShipEngineers.xml contents :

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<mdscript name="AddSmallShipEngineer" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="md.xsd">
  <cues>
    <!-- main cue to add the engineer as create_ship will refuse this on non capital ship types -->
    <cue name="Yorrick_AddEngineer" instantiate="true" namespace="this">
      <conditions>
        <event_cue_signalled/>
      </conditions>
      <actions>
        <set_value name="$Ship" exact="event.param"/>

        <do_if value="$Ship.engineer" negate="true">
          <create_cue_actor name="$engineer" cue="this">
            <!-- this controls visible or invisible engineer. Any faction but xenon makes the engineer a visible listed crew member -->
            <select faction="faction.plutarch" tags="tag.engineer"/>
            <!-- then set the computer/crewman to belong to the ships owner faction-->
            <owner exact="$Ship.owner" />
          </create_cue_actor>
          <set_entity_type entity="$engineer" type="entitytype.engineer" />
        </do_if>
        <do_if value="$engineer?">
          <assign_engineer object="$Ship" actor="$engineer" />
          <do_if value="$engineer.container">
            <start_script object="$engineer" name="'engineer.ai'" />
          </do_if>

          <!--<remove_cue_actor actor="$engineer" cue="this" />
          <remove_value name="$engineer" />-->
        </do_if>
      </actions>
    </cue>
    
    <!-- cover existing games and job ship spawns  -->
    <cue name="Yorrick_AddEngineer_ExistingShips" instantiate="true" namespace="this">
      <conditions>
        <check_any>
          <event_game_loaded />
          <event_cue_signalled cue="md.Setup.GameStart"/>
        </check_any>
      </conditions>
      <actions>
        <debug_text text="'Starting timed cue for astromechs.'" filter="error" chance="100"/>

        <set_value name="$NextCheck" exact="player.age+10s"/>
      </actions>
      <cues>
        <cue name="Yorrick_AddEngineer_TimedCheck" checkinterval="30s">
          <conditions>
            <check_value value="$NextCheck lt player.age" />
          </conditions>
          <actions>
            <debug_text text="'Testing timed cue for astromechs.'" filter="error" chance="0"/>
            <find_ship groupname="$SMShips" multiple="true" class="[class.ship_s,class.ship_m]" space="player.galaxy"/>
            <do_all exact="$SMShips.count" counter="$i" >
              <do_if value="$SMShips.{$i} != player.primaryship">
                <debug_text text="'calling cue to add astromechs.'" filter="error" chance="0"/>
                <signal_cue_instantly cue="Yorrick_AddEngineer" param="$SMShips.{$i}"/>
              </do_if>
            </do_all>
            
            <set_value name="$NextCheck" exact="player.age+30s"/>
            <reset_cue cue="Yorrick_AddEngineer_TimedCheck"/>
          </actions>
        </cue>
      </cues>
    </cue>
  </cues>
</mdscript>

For reference the current AI repairs to 60% base with 0 start engineer up to 90% with 5 star.

[YorrickVander]

@Marvin didn't see your post until after the addendum.

Interesting, the documentation for create_engineer states that it is not functional for any but l + xl ships. Guess the actual usuage has changed? Nice to know, will test it unless you are releasing another mod to do the same thing

[swatti]

Update for this greatly needed. I'd like the skunk and mah small ships to fix themselfs slowly.

[YorrickVander]

Will take a look at what's needed. I guess I can just pop up a disclaimer about performance issues on lower end cpus.

[Nikola515]

Hey Yorrick nice mod as always Do you think it would be good idea to move fixing from 75 to 90% ? They get damaged so easily and 90% would give them better fighting chance... And less micromanaging and fixing them in shipyards ? Anyway 75% is still better than nothing

[Nikola515]

Hey is this mod still on Steam ? I looked it up but I cant find it anywhere on workshop ?????

[YorrickVander]

Less laggy version up soon(tm)

[swatti]

Please tell me the skunk can auto-repair too!